It is prescribed to comrade soldiers and sailors performing guard duty within the walls of the Tauride Palace: do not permit any violence whatsoever against the counter-revolutionary faction of the Constituent Assembly, and, freely allowing all persons to exit the Tauride Palace, admit no one into it without special orders 31.

Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars
V. Ulyanov (Lenin)*

Written during the night of 5-6
(18-19) January 1918

Printed 12 (25) January 1918
in the newspaper "Russkiye Vedomosti" no. 5

Printed from the manuscript